Memories of My Melancholy Whores
By: by Gabriel García Márquez.
Edition: 1st large print ed. (1)
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Memoria de mis putas tristes
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780739325605
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Large type books.
Description: Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel Garcia Mårquez's first work of fiction in ten years, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing" (Los Angeles Times). 

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist decides to give himself "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."

The virgin is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossoms into a transforming year. It is a year in which he relives, in a rush of memories, his lifetime of (paid-for) sexual adventures and experiences a revelation that brings him to the edge of dying—not of old age, but, at long last, of uncorrupted love.
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